ABOUT SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON

Sean Stannard-Stockton is the president and chief investment officer of Ensemble Capital Management, located in Burlingame, CA, midway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From 2006 through 2012, Sean authored the Tactical Philanthropy blog and wrote regular philanthropy columns for both the Financial Times and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2012, Sean officially ended the blog to focus on growing Ensemble Capital.

The Christian Science Monitor quotes me talking about GreatNonprofits in this article on how to choose a charity. A small correction: I didn't suggest people use Yelp to evaluate charities, I said GreatNonprofits was "like Yelp for nonprofits."

David Roodman is back and raising the question of whether Kiva user's money helps borrowers or goes to the shareholders of the microfinance banks that Kiva works with. To be clear, I've got nothing against Kiva. I think they've nailed a lot of key design issues that other groups should learn from. I'm also impressed with Kiva's consistently impressive responses to Roodman's questioning.